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Patrick Smith

Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky looks over at the media as he leaves the Centre County Courthouse after jury selection begun in the Sandusky child sex abuse trial on June 5, 2012 in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. A jury convicted Jerry Sandusky of 45 charges of child sex abuse on June 22, five-months to the date of Joe Paterno's death, concluding a trial in which eight men took the witness stand to declare that the former Penn State coach molested them when they were boys. This verdict ended a criminal case that has shocked and horrified the Penn State community and, on a national level, cast light on the nature of pedophilia and the silence and denial that often accompany it.